Michael Bergin Quotes

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

No addiction is good.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

I drink to forget I drink.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.